Haverhill \u2013 Gary R. Preo, 65, passed away at Merrimack Valley Holy Family Hospital in Haverhill on October 22, 2016 surrounded by his loving family.Born and raised in Lewiston, ME he was the son of the late Percy F. and Rhenda L. (Vallee) Preo. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp and was honorably discharged. He was employed as a machine operator at Vernon Plastics for many years. He enjoyed tinkering with machines and electronic equipment. Gary was an avid motorcyclist and enjoyed riding his bike whenever he could. Affectionately known as \u201cPH\u201d, which stood for Powerhouse, he was loved by all who knew him. He was a member of the Wolfpack Side Band, a CB radio group, a member of the Sons of the American Legion, 1314 Main Street Squadron 4 and was a Sargent of Arms. He was also involved with Rescue Eight of Merrimac Valley. Gary liked to collect things, was an amateur photographer and had a sweet tooth. Gary is survived by his companion Debbie Paquette of Haverhill his children, Rhenda Dube-Culbert of Spencer Jessy Preo of Spencer Todd Preo Hastings and his wife Ruth Ann Watson of So. Gardner, ME stepdaughter Sheary Adams of Haverhill his wife, Gloria J. (Bolster) Preo four brothers and four sisters many grandchildren and great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews his best friend, Everett Martin of Haverhill. In addition to his parents he was predeceased by three siblings. Funeral services will be Friday, October 28 at 5:00PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. Burial will be private. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haverhill \u2013 Gary R. Preo, 65, passed away at Merrimack Valley Holy Family Hospital in Haverhill on October 22, 2016 surrounded by his loving family.Born and raised in Lewiston, ME he was the son of the late Percy F. and Rhenda L. (Vallee) Preo. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9702,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/9702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}